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    1 year ago

    Although the company claims no identifying data travels to its headquarters in Beijing, there are concerns among China skeptics that the country’s telecoms and national security laws would mean it would have to snoop on users if aske

    Isn’t that something pretty standard ? Like the same thing happen with facebook/google/Yandex or even reddit ? Technically even feddit.de would have to cooperate with German authority when asked.

    I agree that you can trust the German government way more than China (and most likely way more than any other European government) but the issue of user data being used for massive espionage isn’t a problem specific to Tik Tok.